Made to measure
Given that second-hand buildings generally adapt best to purposes close to those for which they were originally intended, one can only applaud the initiative of the University of Cork, currently...
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Career tonic
Lord Butterfield, distinguished medic, member of the House of Lords science and technology committee and former vice chancellor of Nottingham and Cambridge universities, suggested a simple solution...
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Costing the earth
While higher education's in-ternationalist instincts meant there was a certain regret at Norway's decision last year to reject European Union membership, this may not have been shared at Newcastle...
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Thanks a bunch
Never let it be said that Sir William Stubbs, chief executive of the Further Education Funding Council, lacks compassion. An exasperated member of North Warwickshire College complained that fears...
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Hard fax
Colleges Employers Forum chief Roger Ward likes to be known as a grand talker. When the man who spent the eve of his wedding in constant negotiation with Natfhe officials decided to treat his patient...
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Digital diet
Scottish universities and colleges are being connected by a series of information superhighway links, or Metropolitan Area Networks, known rather ungrammatically as MANs. One of these is in Fife and...
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Late leaver
Never famed for its ability to react rapidly, the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Prinicpals appears to be getting slower as it expands. With staff member Sean Fielding off to a new job at Exeter...
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Rouge faces
Until a couple of years ago, the grandly titled Pol Roger Oxford v Cambridge Blind Wine Tasting Match used to take place at the Oxford and Cambridge Club. But no longer: according to a Pol Roger...
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Copy cuts
Agitation about plagiarism is getting through to students. As Shaun Breslin, acting director of Newcastle University's East Asia centre, finished a distinctly lively paper on the future of China at...
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Hong Kong tie in trouble
The University of Abertay Dundee is claiming more than Pounds 130,000 from a Hong Kong company which it says misled it over a distance-learning contract. In a Hong Kong Supreme Court writ, the...
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In profile
This is the first issue of The THES to be available to users with access to FT Profile, the leading online text retrieval system. FT Profile is available in most academic libraries and to many users...
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Student knifing fuels race fears
Police were this week playing down reports that the fatal stabbing of a London student was racially motivated, for fear of heightening factional tension on campus. A Nigerian student, Ayotunde...
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People's Free University of Pollok set up by the M77 protesters
(Photograph) - Grove of academe: Alastair McIntosh (centre), teaching director of Edinburgh University's centre for human ecology, chats to new students after giving an inaugural lecture at the...
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Baring blow to charity
Grant-giving charities suffered a double blow this week with the collapse of the fortunes of the Baring Foundation and news of an instant National Lottery that will directly compete with charity...
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Cheerful assassin defies analysis
When Frederick Crews attacked Freud in an article 14 months ago, he outraged many psychoanalysts. It was, he argues here, a fury from a profession aware of its accelerating collapse In its issue of...